{"id":3785,"date":"2010-01-30T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:15:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:15:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas phony arrest scheme with Black motorists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the WSJ blog, a story about police shakedowns of Black motorists in Tenaha TX seizing money for no reason and threatening prosecution to get it. The DA apparently is involved: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/01\/28\/texas-da-sued-over-alleged-phony-arrest-scheme-left-high-and-dry\/?mod=\">Texas DA Sued Over Alleged Phony Arrest Scheme Left \u2018High and Dry\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reference to an earlier post and a Chicago Tribune story from March: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,6051682.story\">Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists&#8217; cash, cars \/ Suit says cops force motorists, largely black, to forfeit cash and cars\u2014or be charged with trumped-up crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot hidden in honey wagon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/CRIME\/01\/29\/arizona.marijuana.bust\/index.html?hpt=T2\">CNN this story from Arizona<\/a>:  A septic tank cleaning truck was the subject of a stop and search that led to the finding of 743 lbs of marijuana hidden in the human waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}